Binance NFT, the NFT platform of the world’s largest crypto exchange Binance, and Russia’s State Hermitage Museum announced their collaboration in the release of tokenized art from the museum collection, which will be auctioned on the NFTs marketplace at the end of August 2021. The Hermitage, one of the most significant museums in the world,…
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey hinted at integrating Bitcoin into Twitter services and new features, including Twitter Tip Jar and Super Follows. Jack Dorsey sees top cryptocurrency Bitcoin will be one of the key trends for the future of Twitter. During the second-quarter earnings call, the Twitter CEO suggested that Bitcoin will be a “big part”…
This week, several central banks at once released announcements regarding national digital money. Financial regulators of Canada, India, and Nigeria made moves toward launching their own central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has this week redoubled its investment and research into crypto’s underlying technology, blockchain, and has set a clear…
Decentralized derivatives exchange SynFutures launched the DeFi futures, letting miners hedging against Bitcoin mining difficulty and all the factors affecting their mining returns. SynFutures announced a new product called Bitcoin Hash Rate Futures that uses the mining difficulty of Bitcoin as a basis to open long or short positions. The new offering is described as…
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global announced on Wednesday it has started to accept meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin for commerce payments. Dogecoin (DOGE) became the 7th cryptocurrency for merchants to accept payments on Coinbase’s e-commerce portal, according to an announcement on Twitter. The platform currently also supports Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Ether (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), as well…
Major blockchain hosting and digital asset mining company Core Scientific is going public through a merger with Power & Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Corp., valued at around $4.3 billion combined. On Wednesday, Core Scientific Holding Co., one of the largest mining companies in North America, announced its plan to go public on Nasdaq via a special…